In the news this week, AT&T is making an ambitious push to buy Time Warner for $85 billion — will regulators approve the deal? And can a new cheap streaming service called DirecTV Now prove that AT&T won’t raise prices?

On this week’s show, we’ll discuss AT&T’s plans to launch a streaming-only version of DirecTV. Also, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes sells The New Republic to Old Money, and Snapchat makes a deal with Nielsen for third-party ad metrics.

For nearly a century, most people thought of privacy in terms of blocking yourself off from unwanted scrutiny. But networked technology has introduced a new meaning — the right, or ability, to negotiate the commercial value of one’s data profiles.